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A Rude Shock for Airline Passengers?

How much freedom will people trade for "safety?" This story comes via Homeland Stupidity. Be sure to watch the video (which actually says, "for a businessman or a family on vacation, wearing the EMD 'safety bracelet' for a few hours during a flight is a small inconvenience to ensure their safe arrival." Thanks to the Cryptogon for the find

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You check in at the airline ticket counter. But instead of a boarding pass, you get shackled with an electronic bracelet which tracks your every move, contains all your personal information, and can shock you senseless. This vision of the future of air security is being floated around the Department of Homeland Security’s research and development office.

According to a video promoting the so-called EMD Safety Bracelet, all airline passengers would be required to wear it “until they disembark the flight at their destination.”

The device, in addition to storing all of your sensitive personal information and tracking you with GPS, would allow someone to activate it remotely and immobilize the wearer for several minutes. This is EMD, or electro-muscular disruption.

And the Department of Homeland Security is interested in buying them.

Continue reading at Homeland Stupidity

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Wouldn't terrorist just take

Wouldn't terrorist just take off bracelet before he made his move.

I just love how some companies will do anything or say anything to make a buck off the taxpayer.
We can protect you. Just give us money!
In the fine print somewhere I'm sure there is a disclaimer on how it's not 100% full proof. In the meantime they hope they will have made a cool billion before something does happen like terrorist just cutting off bracelet.

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No Way!

I will NEVER fly again. I'm sure there will be many others that will feel the same.

No doubt

the sheeple will think this is a great idea!Pink for girls and blue
for boys.

If these devices are

If these devices are implemented I'll be shorting the airline stocks. I can't imagine shock collars, er bracelets, being good for business.

Personally, I've never been afraid to fly and these bracelets would not scare me away from doing so. But what they would do is cause me to drive a lot more often when there is a feasible choice to make between driving or flying. For example, I think I would choose to drive 8 hours instead of taking just over an hour flight.

These devices remind me of that movie Wedlock, where the prison inmates are paired up and made to wear explosive collars which explode (for both inmates) if either of the pair is ever separated by too far of a distance. http://www.imdb.com/title...

Who would let them put one of these devices on their kids? How about elderly or those with pacemakers?

Love their Nazi-like logo.

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I will not travel anywhere,

I will not travel anywhere, nor will I not open up my wallet. I think I would rather stay home and just stare at a wall all day and not spend any money on anything I do not need.

Ahh yes, you will be able to do what I do nowadays,

You can watch the flowers and grass grow, watch the insects and animals at work, tend to your garden and learn to appreciate the real beauty of nature and life. If you combine that with eventually disconnecting from the internet and TV, my guess is you won't need blood pressure medication any more. You may even live to be 110 - even if you still drink and smoke.

This is perfect ...

... for McCain. You know when he loses his temper, like he did on the plane. When he does it again, the crew just hits the button and McCain will be "conditioned" to settle down, or they'll hit it again until he learns to behave himself. lol

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has to be an invention

by the mindless for those who are mindless, next they will have us all wear dog tags just like they wear in the military.

Enough of this stupidity, these people are going to be stopped and
prosecuted for there abuse on our Constitutional rights.

Non-representation = Non Taxation Keep it up Fascists, your security methods are really absurd and effect all of us who ABIDE by the law's
of our country.

Jackoff Chertoff go back to your playpen and get re-born normal !

ISN'T the HEART A MUSCLE?

Yeah, like I'm going to TRUST them to not KILL PEOPLE? "OOPS, sorry, we mistakenly used this on someone with a heart condition and they DIED!" How will this work in relation to people who already wear pacemakers? I can only see red flags going up all over the place! How many innocent people will they "accidentally" KILL with this device?

The last time I flew out to California from Florida for my father's funeral in 2005, I was singled out on BOTH trips, there and back. I was in my late 40's, 5'2" white female, made in the U.S.A., yet I was singled out for additional screenings and made to feel like a criminal??? I will NEVER board another plane as long as I live, though I do love to fly.

Yeah right

What's to keep from zapping the wrong passenger. or the terrorist from subduing the guy with the control before he can use it? That was a fake video was'nt it? If not it looks like something that could easily be overiden.

Let me know when the space

Let me know when the space ship lands because I think I want onboard.

Surely TSA will adopt this technology because its the typical well thought out protection they have always provided.

I have made a decision to not fly because of the lack of security to protect me from my government. They have made traveling a nightmare and an invasion of privacy.

You'll have to get in line behind me and my family for that.

More reasons not to fly commercially anywhere unless absolutely necessary.

A Cessna and flying lessons are looking better and better everyday.

Wow, I once bought one of those for my dog...

But I didn't have the heart to put it on her... I decided I'd rather hear her bark...

Along those same lines, didn't the gov't make RFID chips mandatory in farm animals? Now you will all have a little chip as well... Seems to be a pattern there... Is it possible that we are considered, by our loving masters, as just another "herd"?

Yours in Liberty,

Shovel

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Zap my child

I'm sorry but you can kiss your tourism trade goodbye. It's bad enough with all the other airline checks and balances without this. There is no way I would have an electronic zapper placed on myself let alone a child or an elderly reletive. Folk can panic on flights through fear, etc. It's just not worth the hassle, especially when many folk now realise that it is our own government who are the terrorists or at least responsible for any blowback caused by our politics and war.
Up yours Mickey!

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Good luck out there &Thank you. You're a gift.

Here's the video

Thinking back

Remember a few months back when all the airlines had their planes grounded to have their wiring inspected and replaced? Here's one news article to remind you, and here's one of the several DP discussions that took place on that topic.

Just thinking out loud, here.

That is the most ridiculous

That is the most ridiculous video I have ever seen.

First they put it on airplanes... and then everywhere else...

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I choose not to fly anymore...

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We are Borg

Do not attempt to disconnect yourself from the collective. Resistance is futile.

In the video, when discussing all the security measures thus far taken in airports, and describing the various reasons why those are not fully sufficient in battling terrorism, they freeze-frame the video, superimpose the key phrase to make their point, and announce, "Technology is only as good as the people using it."

Uh...yeah. But surely that'd never be an issue with these EMD bracelets, comrade.

i have no problem wearing one of these

as long as the pilots wear them as well and i have the controls for their bracelets. "anybody shocks me and we're going down!"

Which makes one think

Wait until the "terrorists" get a hold of an eletronic gadget to set off the entire plane's bracelets until their demands are met. Nothing like handing them the tools they need. What kind of morons and idiots could think they have a great brainstorm here. These are the doofises that are protecting this country? We're screwed.

Ha ha ha ha ROFL

I can't wait until those morons instate that and get their first "software glitch" on a fully loaded plane. Then perhaps people will begin waking up to Homeland Stupidity.

Who thinks up this junk,

for pity's sake? Lordy......

Since several years ago, when all these airline security

measures began occurring, and I tried to use airline services, and saw what was going on, I have boycotted airlines and airports since that time.

I will not fly, nor will I go to any airport.
If I can't drive to my destination, then I don't go to that destination.

My sincere hope is that all the airlines go out of business.
Then, when the gov't airport gestapo are all out of jobs because of no airlines, then new airlines can start up with the stipulation that the gestapo can keep their asses out or they won't start an airline company. The gov't has single-handedly destroyed the airline business, along with, of course, anything else that it touches.

I really think there is a business opportunity waiting for an enterprising person to begin a small-craft airline system that doesn't go thru any major airports and skirts the TSA totally. Freedom Airlines.

I quit flying months ago

I had an anxiety attack in the airport last time I flew - fairly minor but still got me thinking "What if TSA had been around?" Two weeks later, Carol Gotbaum dies (google it if you don't know the story.)
I'll be driving from Idaho to Minnesota, either in a veggie car, a water hybrid (both projects in the works) or else renting a Prius. We had to go to Wisconsin last month and that is what we did - VERY impressed with those little cars.
If I ever want to leave the country, I have a sailboat. Seriously, I will NOT give the airlines and Federal Reserve notes so they can treat me like a terrorist. What a deal...

As a sign of your love for Big Brother...

....wear this bracelet.

The mammoth Department of "Defense" could not allegedly manage to control the airspace of the U.S. Military Command Center (Pentagon) on 9/11. Now Fatherland Insecurity is going to track the movements of millions of airline passengers each day? Has the Big Brother Government figured out how not to lose track of large commercial aircraft on radar screens yet? Oh, I forgot, the FAA and the military only have access to 1950's-style radar technology.

Thankfully, this new technology will allow Big Brother to taze anyone who would dare to commit the crime of smoking in an aircraft lavatory.

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